hi all - there has been some discussion about private cemeteries on another list that i'm on, and i thought the response that i received from cynthia porcher was worth passing along. julie thames howell jax, fla ----- Original Message ----- From: Cynthia H Porcher To: [email protected] ; [email protected] ; [email protected] ; [email protected] ; [email protected] ; [email protected] ; [email protected] ; [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 7:04 PM Subject: Cemetery Laws I am a researcher for the National Park Service, and I was very interested in the recent postings about cemeteries. I am involved in saving and preserving access to cemeteries in gated resort communities on the sea islands of SC and GA. I forwarded your message to some of my cohorts at NPS and received the following info in return. I hope that some of this info may help. There is some more info which I will send in another post. chp Here are the web sites for the Florida cemetery and human remains law and regulations. I have copied in the pertinent page of the statutes index to find them all (I got to it from the first web address by clicking on Title XLVI in the menu that comes up with the first address shown below. http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?Tab=statutes&submenu=1 http://fac.dos.state.fl.us/fac/ Select Chapter 1, Department of State Select 1A-45 Procedures for Reporting and Determining Jurisdiction Over Unmarked Human Burials and Select 1A-46 Guidelines for the Public Display of Human Skeletal Remains